What makes an open source project flourish? We want to encourage more discourse about the non-coding aspects of successful open source projects.

FOSS Backstage provides a space to discuss a broad spectrum of issues related to community management, vendor neutrality and leading projects without discretionary power. Conference topics will include open source project leadership best practices, community management, open source project metrics, open source strategy for enterprise, adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when dealing with open source and many more.

With a focus on decentralised decision making and open collaboration FOSS Backstage will be a great place for: developers, architects, sysadmins, community leaders, students and anyone interested in building and managing communities within the open source space, to get together and exchange ideas.

After a fully virtual edition in 2021, FOSS Backstage took place as a hybrid conference in 2022.

FOSS Backstage will return March 4th and 5th, 2024.